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Fancy Farm is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 403 people and just one neighborhood, Fancy Farm is the 337th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Fancy Farm isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fancy Farm are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fancy Farm is a town of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fancy Farm who work in community and social services (25.64%), healthcare suport services (20.51%), and management occupations (8.55%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Fancy Farm’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fancy Farm has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fancy Farm a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Fancy Farm is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fancy Farm, the average commute to work is 35.16 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fancy Farm is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Fancy Farm isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Fancy Farm doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Fancy Farm is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.06% of adults 25 and older in Fancy Farm have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fancy Farm in 2022 was $26,605, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,420 for a family of four. However, Fancy Farm contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fancy Farm home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fancy Farm residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fancy Farm include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Fancy Farm is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
People
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kentucky. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fancy Farm are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.2% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 45.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Fancy Farm, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
